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DESCRIPTION:An Emma set in modern Asia\, Cheryl Tan guides the reader throu
gh a young woman’s rise in the glitzy\, moneyed city of Singapore\, where o
ld traditions clash with heady modern materialism.\n\nVividly told in Singl
ish—colorful Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slang—Sar
ong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of a young\, striving
woman caught between worlds. As Jazzy fervently pursues her quest to find
a white husband\, the bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold-digger reveals
the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the s
hiny exterior of Singapore’s glamorous nightclubs and busy streets\, its gr
ubby wet markets and seedy hawker centers. Moving through her colorful\, st
ratified world\, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity o
f new money and old-world attitudes which threaten to crush her dreams. Wit
h remarkable vibrancy and empathy\, Tan brings not only Jazzy\, but her cit
y of Singapore\, to dazzling\, dizzying life.\n\nCheryl Tan is a New York-b
ased journalist and author of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food & Fa
mily. She is the editor of the fiction anthology Singapore Noir. She was a
staff writer at the Wall Street Journal\, In Style magazine and the Baltimo
re Sun. Her stories have also appeared in the New York Times\, the Washingt
on Post\, Bon Appetit\, Food & Wine\, and others.\n\nCheryl Tan will be in
conversation with Rafael Alvarez.\n\nRafael Alvarez is the author of ten bo
oks - both fiction and non-fiction - and a screenwriter. He wrote for the f
irst three seasons of the HBO drama The Wire and recently finished a featur
e script about Nazis in occupied Greece. His most recent book is an antholo
gy of Baltimore essays and memoir titled\, Crabtown\, USA.
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SUMMARY:Writers LIVE: Cheryl Tan\, Sarong Party Girls
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